On 22 April at 6:00 PM the last of the Webinars organised by Management Innovation on the theme “Innovation & Sustainability” will take place. This time it will be a face-to-face between Prof. Enrico Giovannini, Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, and Monsignor Carlo Maria Polvani, Deputy Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The title of the Webinar is “Conversion and Transition. Comparing perspectives for overcoming the Ecological Crisis“.
This fifth Webinar is organised on the opening day of the Foligno Science and Philosophy Festival and on World Earth Day organised by Earth Day Italy.
To participate in the webinar live via YouTube channel the link is as follows:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/8xX_PZAhWJE
Who is Enrico Giovannini
He is an Italian economist, statistician and academic, since 13 February 2021 Minister of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility in the Draghi government.
He was Chief Statistician of the OECD from 2001 to August 2009, President of Istat from August 2009 to April 2013. From 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014 he was Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta government.
He is co-founder of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, a network of over 290 Italian civil society actors, of which he was Spokesperson until 13 February 2021.
He is full professor (on leave of absence) of economic statistics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Statistics and Analysis and Policies for Sustainable Development.
Who is Carlo Maria Polvani
Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani was born in Milan on 28 July 1965. He studied at the Leone XIII Institute (Milan) and at the Collège Stanislas (Montreal). From the Department of Biochemistry of McGill University (Montreal) he received his B.Sc. in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990. He obtained a Master of Divinity in 1993 from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, USA).
Since 2001 he has worked at the Secretariat of State as Head of the Information and Documentation Office and the Technical Office of the General Affairs Section, as well as the Holy See’s Representative on the Government Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
In 2015, he was appointed Member of the Commission on Vatican Media and of the Executive Committee on Information and Communication Technology of the Holy See.